swanlee

I like this roster, this new front office and our new coach. I just hope it all works, would suck even though on paper we should be a top 5 team but for some reason never get there. Im glad Bogi is locked up but I hope his knees hold out andvwe do need another long shooter on the roster. So I guess keeping him long term is better then another Hueter situation. Huerter though was pretty bad in defense and never went to tje free throw line so he had some major faults fir this team.

I just hope we play competitive and do not embarrass ourselves.

Im at the game tonight. Murray is on a tear. Hope we dont blow the lead in the 4th.

1985, family is going to our first hawks game tonight, should be fun

I'd rather have owners like Tony and Jami that seem to give a damn then a nameless corporate face like ASG. Not many people in the world know how to run an NBA team so I got no problems with them learning as long as they care about the results and it really seems they do. Why would we want an owner that just owns the team for a tax break?

Man this is shaping up to be one of my favorite Hawks teams. Been a fan since the Nique days in the mid 80s and this new Front office, New head coach combined with our young but talented team and it is really really exciting. Not often a coach in his prime comes in to a young team like this. We shown we can get to the ECF finals with a lesser coach so very excited to see what Quinn can do.

While that 60 win team was great and it was a fun ride we peaked WAY to soon on the season, we were pretty much limping into post season, and the police issues with Thabo hurt a lot as well. You could see it in the last month of the season.

I'm honestly not to worried about the rest of this year, we could go in either direction for the last 20 games, I am pretty excited about the future of the team though. This new Front office is really stepping up and doing some interesting things, also the trade deadline moves and getting Quinn was pretty smart. I'm at the point where I will give Landry and Korver some serious leeway and trust their judgment. I like the interviews they are giving and the moves they are making.

Good guy, no hard feelings. Thanks for the ECF run and the Trae coming out party. That was a fun run.

Prunty did good, yesterdays game is a game we lose under Nate, Nate was an expert in going up[ by double digits and then blowing the lead in the second half. I'm glad a reasonable coach worked around that habit of our team.

Yea the Front office turmoil was odd but they did step in front of it quick and laid out what was going on. so they handled that well and honestly since the change over they have been making some REALLY good decisions, our trade deadline moves were great, firing Nate and getting Quin is a major coup for the team. I'm so far really liking the new front office and am very hopeful for the future.

He is still a step up from Kevin on Defense

With JC AND Hunter always injured Bey will probably end up starting alot of games anyway filling in for one of them at any point in time.

I'd see how he does the rest of the year. We do need a legit backup for Hunter and Collins since both seem to be injury prone and a bench 3pt shooter is useful since we shipped Hueter out

Yea the new front office has been making some smart well thought out moves since the reshuffle. I like the way they are doing things.

How many players in the league are really actually better then Trae? A handull at most and Trae is still really young.

Trae again comes off as honest and professional with a desire to win but makes sure not to throw Nate under the bus and makes things more clear then ever that he does not want input into coaching decisions and just wants to play. Wonder how the media will spin it to try and deride him?

There was no way we let Nate go after taking us to the ECF for only the second time since moving to the ATL. Hiring Snyder now eliminates the danger of that by getting a coach we directly picked to be our long term coach instead of risking doing well again in the last half of the season to be forced to go with an interim coach long term that was never intended to happen. The Front office is acting pretty smart trying to avoid mistakes from the past that caused us to be in this position.

So is Trae getting this much hate for how he embarrassed several High profile teams to lead us to the ECF a few years ago? We embarrassed the Knicks and 76ers, killed the career of Simmons and Trae thrived and put a dagger in the Knicks at their place. He deserves more respect for him rising under pressure not to be derided for it. Seems if ATL teams actually do have stars that perform well in the spotlight the media wants to kill that cause our city is meant for fodder for north east teams

Jeff is a Dumbass. If we wait he is gone. He has connections with our front office and was here during some of the Bud years, he knows the building and owners. He is pretty much a perfect fit for us. Either Pounce now before other teams have opening's or pick up scraps during the off season. Its a great idea to get a full time coach now and not have a Nate situation where you go deep in the playoffs and have to go with them. This new front office has been making very good decisions since the reshuffle and learning fton the padt mistakes of the old front office. Im pretty happy with them. I hope it soon translates to wins but they certainly do not sit around when obvious stuff needs to be fixed.

Thanks for the fix, Hope the Hawks theme comes back soon this default one is UGLY

Im not going to stress or speculate about this kind of crap. Its Outside all of our control. This season has been draining enough. I also dont think Trae should have a lone press conference just to get yelled at by the media so Im fine with him skipping on that. Hes not the GM. If he flips out because of our coaching hire the front office either works it out with him or trades him. I do not buy the agenda by the media that he runs the team and has a hissy fit daily about Diva stuff.

I know it was a bit of a dismay all the front office shuffling, team that blew leads etc. but Honestly this new Front office seems to at least understand the Challenge ahead and are not afraid to get people to help. I also liked our last minute trades to try and help the Bench. TS was great and all but the more I hear from the new Front Office and when I hear things like TS was a road block to get DJ I think I'm ok with this new front office. Also I'm ok with an owner that gives a damn and is trying even if they are in-experienced. Their are not a lot of humans on this planet that have experience running an NBA team or managing one, so you have to start somewhere. The fact that the owner is pretty much all in and his son has a huge interest in the success of the team to me is a good thing and not a downside. Also having Korver in the front office I think is a good move, great player very high Basketball IQ and he is not that far removed from the game so he can still work with younger players and younger coaches etc.

I think Nate staying on longer probably has to do with the Front office switch that happened earlier this year. You can't fire a coach with the Front office is in total transition. From a fan standpoint I wanted Nate gone earlier but from a realistic logistical standpoint this is probably the earliest he could have been fired.

I also agree with the idea that if Trae is solely responsible for LP and Nate getting fired when they did then I trust Trae alot more than most players for these decisions, he can be Player/GM then if he is going to make the proper decisions where no one else will. He obviously wasn't the only cause for Nate being fired, how can anyone look at our record and how many games we blew when up by double digits to be ok with the coaches staying around? Every time this year we went up by double digits I pretty much expected us to lose and sure enough that's what we tended to do. That to me says bad coaching and the non ability to adjust.